Author: Thérèse M. Bonin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Examining Albert's reading of The Book of Causes, this text asks: how does he view the relation between faith and reason to identify creation with emanation from God; and how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism to find in a 5th-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle's meaning.
Creation as Emanation
Author: Thérèse M. Bonin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Examining Albert's reading of The Book of Causes, this text asks: how does he view the relation between faith and reason to identify creation with emanation from God; and how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism to find in a 5th-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle's meaning.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Examining Albert's reading of The Book of Causes, this text asks: how does he view the relation between faith and reason to identify creation with emanation from God; and how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism to find in a 5th-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle's meaning.
The Design of Existence
Author: Wilson Van Dusen
Publisher: Chrysalis Books
ISBN: 9780877853947
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guidebook to the mystical experience like no other. Viewing external reality from a multi-dimensional perspective, Van Dusen imposes that vision on our internal reality. He sets out to explore the inner landscape in detail, using the writings of 18th-century visonary Emanuel Swedenborg as a template and comparing them to works in of other spiritual traditions, especially Hinduism and Buddhism. For both Swedenborg and Van Dusen, our interior realm reflects the external cosmos. Each of us carries in our nature and character a cosmological design. This inner-outer correspondence makes possible a mystical sense of oneness.Includes contemplative and meditative exercises for daily use.
Publisher: Chrysalis Books
ISBN: 9780877853947
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guidebook to the mystical experience like no other. Viewing external reality from a multi-dimensional perspective, Van Dusen imposes that vision on our internal reality. He sets out to explore the inner landscape in detail, using the writings of 18th-century visonary Emanuel Swedenborg as a template and comparing them to works in of other spiritual traditions, especially Hinduism and Buddhism. For both Swedenborg and Van Dusen, our interior realm reflects the external cosmos. Each of us carries in our nature and character a cosmological design. This inner-outer correspondence makes possible a mystical sense of oneness.Includes contemplative and meditative exercises for daily use.
The Philosophy of 'as If'
Author: Hans Vaihinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fictions, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fictions, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Maimonidean studies. 2.1991(1992)
Author: Arthur Hyman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881254341
Category : Jewish philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881254341
Category : Jewish philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Creation and the God of Abraham
Author: David B. Burrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139490788
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing - from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central to classical accounts of divine action, free will, grace, theodicy, religious language, intercessory prayer and questions of divine temporality and, as such, the foundation of a scriptural God but also the transcendent Creator of all that is. This edited collection explores how we might now recover a place for this doctrine, and, with it, a consistent defence of the God of Abraham in philosophical, scientific and theological terms. The contributions span the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and cover a wide range of sources, including historical, philosophical, scientific and theological. As such, the book develops these perspectives to reveal the relevance of this idea within the modern world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139490788
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing - from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central to classical accounts of divine action, free will, grace, theodicy, religious language, intercessory prayer and questions of divine temporality and, as such, the foundation of a scriptural God but also the transcendent Creator of all that is. This edited collection explores how we might now recover a place for this doctrine, and, with it, a consistent defence of the God of Abraham in philosophical, scientific and theological terms. The contributions span the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and cover a wide range of sources, including historical, philosophical, scientific and theological. As such, the book develops these perspectives to reveal the relevance of this idea within the modern world.
How to Think About God
Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0020160224
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Dr. Adler extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas without relying on faith, mysticism, or science. Instead, he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent upon a suspension of disbelief. Lightning Print On Demand Title
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0020160224
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Dr. Adler extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas without relying on faith, mysticism, or science. Instead, he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent upon a suspension of disbelief. Lightning Print On Demand Title
Curing Mad Truths
Author: Rémi Brague
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268105715
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation—including human beings—as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving. Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268105715
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation—including human beings—as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving. Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.
Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought
Author: James A. Diamond
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004233504
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
How does the 'medieval' function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in this work addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004233504
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
How does the 'medieval' function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in this work addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal.
Christianity and Creation
Author: James P. Mackey
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826419071
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
James Mackey has written a bold one-volume systematic theology in eight chapters on creation, fall, salvation, God, creed, code, cult and church constitution.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826419071
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
James Mackey has written a bold one-volume systematic theology in eight chapters on creation, fall, salvation, God, creed, code, cult and church constitution.
The World and God Are Not-Two
Author: Daniel Soars
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531502067
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the distinctive relation between the world and God in Christian theology is best understood as a non-dualistic one. The “two”—“God” and “World” cannot be added up as separate, enumerable realities or contrasted with each other against some common background because God does not belong in any category and creatures are ontologically constituted by their relation to the Creator. In exploring the unique character of this distinctive relation, Soars turns to Sara Grant’s work on the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta and the metaphysics of creation found in Thomas Aquinas. He develops Grant’s work and that of the earlier Calcutta School by drawing explicit attention to the Neoplatonic themes in Aquinas that provide some of the most fruitful areas for comparative engagement with Vedānta. To the Christian, the fact that the world exists only as dependent on God means that “world” and “God” must be ontologically distinct because God’s existence does not depend on the world. To the Advaitin, this simultaneously means that “World” and “God” cannot be ontologically separate either. The language of non-duality allows us to see that both positions can be held coherently together without entailing any contradiction or disagreement at the level of fundamental ontology. What it means to be “world” does not and cannot exclude what it means to be “God.”
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531502067
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the distinctive relation between the world and God in Christian theology is best understood as a non-dualistic one. The “two”—“God” and “World” cannot be added up as separate, enumerable realities or contrasted with each other against some common background because God does not belong in any category and creatures are ontologically constituted by their relation to the Creator. In exploring the unique character of this distinctive relation, Soars turns to Sara Grant’s work on the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta and the metaphysics of creation found in Thomas Aquinas. He develops Grant’s work and that of the earlier Calcutta School by drawing explicit attention to the Neoplatonic themes in Aquinas that provide some of the most fruitful areas for comparative engagement with Vedānta. To the Christian, the fact that the world exists only as dependent on God means that “world” and “God” must be ontologically distinct because God’s existence does not depend on the world. To the Advaitin, this simultaneously means that “World” and “God” cannot be ontologically separate either. The language of non-duality allows us to see that both positions can be held coherently together without entailing any contradiction or disagreement at the level of fundamental ontology. What it means to be “world” does not and cannot exclude what it means to be “God.”